Flax terpenoid pathway as a source of health promoting compounds

Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 353-364

  Styrczewska, Monika ^a   Kulma, Anna ^a   Kostyn, Kamil ^b   Hasiewicz Derkacz, Karolina ^a   Szopa, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b Len Pharma   (Poland)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Flax; Isoprenoid; Mechanism; Signaling; Terpenoid

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXY 3 METHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A; ANTIOXIDANT; BETA CAROTENE; CAMPESTEROL; CANNABIDIOL; CANNABINOID; CAROTENOID; CASPASE 8; CD36 ANTIGEN; CYCLIC AMP; GAMMA TOCOPHEROL; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PHYTOSTEROL; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PREGNANE X RECEPTOR; PROTEIN KINASE C; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SITOSTEROL; SQUALENE; STIGMASTEROL; TERPENOID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN; XANTHOPHYLL; ZEAXANTHIN;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DNA BINDING; FLAX; GENE REPRESSION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PLANT METABOLISM; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

EID: 84876841596     PISSN: 13895575     EISSN: 18755607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1389557511313030004     Document Type: Article

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